“The bodies of executed war criminals will under no circumstances be returned to Japanese control,” the ... Tokyo to Yokohama on the day of the executions, whereupon they were cremated and ...

Japanese scientists exposed prisoners in occupied China to pathogens and dissected them to learn about the effects on the ...

The Tokyo trials were not the only forum for the punishment of Japanese war criminals ... also organized by MacArthur and resulted in the executions of Generals Yamashita and Homma, the Tokyo ...

"At the time when Chinese people lived in poor conditions, war criminals like me still had plenty of food to eat," Koiti recalled of his life in prison. Between 1956 and 1964, all Japanese war ...

But it is also notorious for memorializing war criminals, which explains why Japan’s neighbors are furious every time a Japanese politician visits the shrine. Abe never visited Yasukuni during ...

The fancy dress outfit with a replica rifle flying the national flag of Japan has renewed calls for a ban on wearing the ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru ... with scores sentenced to either death by hanging or life in prison, depending on the severity of their war crimes. Get briefed on the story of the week ...

and the mistreatment of both civilians and prisoners of war by the Japanese, prompted the Allied powers to prosecute the people they believed to be the perpetrators of these crimes. These trials ...

During the war, he served the Japanese military as a civilian ... Lee was convicted as a Class B or C war criminal and sentenced to death by hanging. After the death sentence was commuted, he ...

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered an underground “horror bunker” that was purportedly used by Japanese scientists to conduct experiments on human subjects during World War II. The researchers ...

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered an underground “horror bunker” that was purportedly used by Japanese scientists ... lead to new evidence of war crimes committed against the Chinese.